"There were feces on the carpet, on the toilet door, on the external door, on the chair and on the wall," receptionist Rashid bin Hach said. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A small cardboard shrine is dedicated to Norris at a U.S. military helicopter hub in Baghdad, and comments lauding the manliness and virility of the actor have been left on toilet walls across Iraq and even in neighboring Kuwait, soldiers say. picked by mutil8or 2 years ago

ROGUE street traders have been selling perfume made from URINE. picked by Bornbad 3 years ago

Anyone who happens to visit a public toilet in Klaipeda, Lithuania, should be careful not to spend longer than five minutes inside – after that time limit the doors will automatically be blocked. picked by kakana 5 months ago

Polish prosecutors have dropped a libel case in which a German paper likened their president to a potato. (Theme pic is president, I'm with the Germans on this one...)

But Americans, you still can't say one sentence... picked by TheStep 2 years ago

Pity the lonely Japanese salaryman, or white-collar worker, who wrote that ode to his electrically warmed commode. The poem was an entry to this year's annual Salaryman Senryu Contest (senryu is a form of Japanese short poetry). picked by Bornbad 3 years ago

Just how. Not why. Why is for you to decide. Inspired in part by AutumnLotus' hygiene conscious kitty* I bring you the amazing cat training man. Of course, once he has the light switch mounted on a wall, he is going to need to train it to use a step ladder to reach it. *I could have gone for a cat using a toilet, but this is more interesting. More of a project for any cat owners who like a... read full post picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

A local Beijing newspaper celebrated the launching of China's first lunar probe this week with a huge front page photo - of a Japanese rocket. picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago

Among the revelations about Magnus was that it wasn’t quite as technologically advanced as had been billed. Most of its borrowers’ records were still on paper, as Floridians learned when thousands of loan documents were discovered in boxes in an unlocked trash Dumpster in Fort Lauderdale. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Yup, as the title says.
And if you want it yellow or green or whatever, well, no problem, they feed the snail with the desired coloured paper so you get your s**t right. picked by ozero 3 weeks ago

In this Star Wars variation, the dreidel and the droid R2-D2 combine to make the Droidel! Print out the PDF and follow these instructions to construct your very own paper Droidel. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

FedEx (formerly Kinko's): This offer is good for 25 black-and-white resume copies per customer and is only valid for orders placed and picked up in-store. Customers may place orders by submitting their resume in printed format or as a digital file, and the copies will be printed single-sided on resume-quality paper. store locator picked by equinox 9 months ago

Birds learn to sing in much the same way that humans learn to talk — they absorb vocabulary and rules of usage through imitation. But a new paper by neurobiologist Partha Mitra suggests that in birds, at least, grammatical rules are hard-wired. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

She said there was a group of four young men and that three of them were teasing the lions. "The boys, especially the older one, were roaring at them. He was taunting them," Miller told the paper. She said she left the area because the group's actions were disturbing her children. ...and a side note - if the survivors were innocent of taunting, wouldn't they be all over the media j... read full post picked by bevissimo 2 years ago

A drug deal plays out, California-style: A conservatively dressed courier drives a company-leased Smart Car to an apartment on a weekday afternoon. Erick Alvaro hands over a white paper bag to his 58-year-old customer, who inspects the bag to ensure everything he ordered over the phone is there. picked by kakana 4 months ago

What is it with the Japanese and their weird obsessions and products?

No one does weird toys like Japan does weird toys… from presidential action figures to toilet training tigers, we’ve found the strangest and most bizarre Japanese toys ever picked by bingo 5 months ago

Gabriel peeled back the wrapping paper, then jumped back in surprise, letting out a yelp. “Hi Daddy,” he said. Spc. Casey Hurles, 23, hadn’t seen his son since he left in June for his second tour in Iraq. For months he had been planning to surprise his little boy, who lives with his mother in Dayton. picked by equinox 10 months ago

So I did what any traveler would do: I begged and paid $150 for what the official called a United States visa-on-arrival paper. Supposedly, it was the first one they had given out to someone without a business sponsor in the last 28 years. I guess I believe them. picked by dollyllama 7 months ago

We live in an era of recycling, where hippies scream in horror if they spot a soda can in the garbage and go into convulsions at the thought of a landfill full of paper. But if you think glass bottles, milk jugs and CSI are the only things that can be recycled, read on. The next dump you take could be used to build a school in Japan. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Amazing what you can do with origami. picked by Mystic 2 years ago